Note 117 — Chapter I · THE HEBREW PATRIARCHS (continued 2)
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Thus in the Tel el-Amarna tablets, Rib-Hadad, the governor of Phœnicia, asks the Pharaoh to send corn to Gebal, as the crops there had failed (Winckler and Abel, No. 48, ll. 8-19), and Meneptah sent corn to the Hittites when they suffered from a famine (Brugsch, Egypt under the Pharaohs, Eng. tr., 2nd edit., ii. p. 119).